Health Promotion

Course description

In this course you will learn the basics of health promotion. The goals are that you can define health and health promotion, you are aware of health promotion at global level, and you know basic elements of health promoting diet and physical activity.

Contents:

• Key concepts of health
• Key concepts of health promotion
• National and international strategies for health promotion
• Recommendations for healthy nutrition and physical activity

Prerequisites

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Assessment criteria

Pass / Fail

Course way of working and time table

Independent study in Moodle learning environment.

The course tasks are evaluated in the following weeks: 38, 45 and 51.

Course info

This course is a part of the course SN00CD26 Health Promotion and guidance (3 ECTS) in Jamk, and can be credited (1 ECTS).

Course additional info

You can join the course at any time and complete it according to your own schedule.

Course enrolment info

We take 30 students to this course according to enrollment order.

Please note that we don’t process enrollments on week 42.

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